This is a very odd novel about the Easter Rising of 1916. It's main character is not one of the Volunteers or Citizen Army men who turned out on Easter Monday, but some bloke from Galway who has lost all his money after a drinking session and gets talked into taking part by a mother he bumps into on O'Connell Street, desperate that he look after her Volunteer son. This son, far from being the heroic warrior of Republican legend, legs it halfway through the Rising and isn't seen or heard from aga [...]

A very straight-forward, journalistic writing, but with two or three interesting and complex character constructions. It gives a good view of the 1916 insurrection that, although it failed, lead to the Irish independence.

Spent most of it trying to figure out whether it was a parody or not, most of the characters seemed like puppies made into people, rushing frantically from one emotion to the next, all of them fervent. Came to no conclusion